Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

AI selfie coaching

Artificial Intelligence / Dries Depoorter, selfie

Generative AI things are often unsettling, but the playful uses I’m into. Dries…
Decline in data for AI bots to scrape

Data Sharing / AI, Data Provenance Initiative, ethics, scraping

The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…
Olympic data journalism

Statistics / Alberto Cairo, data journalism, Olympics, Simon Rogers

Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…
Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model

Statistics, Visualization / election, FiveThirtyEight, forecast, Nate Silver, uncertainty

Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
Federal data at risk

Statistics / American Statistical Association, funding, government

It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…
Estimating Covid deaths

Statistics / coronavirus, counting, estimation, Howtown

It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent…
Searching for the hardest and easiest Spelling Bee puzzels

Statistics / Christopher Wolfram, game, Spelling Bee

Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the…
Perplexity is probably stealing content

Artificial Intelligence / ethics, ownership, Perplexity, Wired

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based…
AI-generated email from a friend

Statistics / AI, email, Neven Mrgan

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from…
Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

Statistics / Cameron Sun, game, probability, uncertainty

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.…
Wheel of Fortune analysis for the win

Statistics / Scott Menke, Upshot, Wheel of Fortune

A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis…
WildChat, a dataset of ChatGPT interactions

Data Sources / ChatGPT, WildChat

In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and…
Mathematical model for biological evolution and machine learning

Statistics / evolution, machine learning, modeling, Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram gets into modeling biological evolution:
Why does biological evolution work? And,…
Readable and informative AI safety guide

Artificial Intelligence / ethics, Hack Club, Nicky Case

You might’ve heard a little something about AI these past few months. If…
Regulating deepfakes

Statistics / AI, ethics, porn, The Markup

It continues to get easier to take someone’s face and put that person…
OpenAI previews voice synthesis

Statistics / ethics, generative, OpenAI, voice

OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just…
Examining the dataset driving machine learning systems

Statistics / bias, Knowing Machines, LAION-5B, machine learning

For Knowing Machines, an ongoing research project that examines the innards of machine…
National identity stereotypes through generative AI

Statistics / AI, bias, midjourney, Rest of World

For Rest of World, Victoria Turk breaks down bias in generative AI in…
Flipbook Experiment, like the Telephone game but visual

Statistics / loss, Pudding, Russell Samora, sketch

This looks fun. The Pudding is running an experiment that functions like a…
Language-based AI to chat with her dead husband

Statistics / AI, chatbot, Guardian, Large Language Model

For the past few years, Laurie Anderson has been using an AI chatbot…

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